February 2008 Dinearounds
The February 2008 Dinearounds have been a great success! A total of 38 people have attended the 4 regional dinearounds. Members shared good food, conversation, and the opportunity to hear first hand about the Leadership Summit held in Louisville, Kentucky. There is one more Dinearound scheduled and it is a Virtual Dinearound scheduled for Monday, February 25 at 12:00 noon. If your interested in attending the Virtual dinearound send an email to wanda.mcdavid@access-information.com.
Here is a copy of the handout distributed at each Dinearound.
2008 Leadership Summit Louisville Kentucky – All the handouts from the Leadership Summit are posted at http://www.sla.org/content/resources/leadcenter/LeadershipSummit/08leadsummit/handouts.cfm
Stephen Abram – SLA President speech is available at http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/01/sla_louisville.html and http://www.sirsidynix.com/Resources/Pdfs/Company/Abram/SLA_Louisville.pdf
Janice LaChance the CEO of the association listed some of the achievements in 2007.
Outreach to potential members
Implementation of new technology
Over 5,000 people attended the Annual Conference held in Denver
The association has an operating surplus for the 5th straight year
Our membership increased by 127 new members
The AMS (Association Management System is in progress – there are some problems & challenges
Information outlook is easier to read & navigate.
More chapters are using Survey Monkey
The association renewed our contract with ebrary and there are more e-books available to members – a knowledge management component is being added
In 2008 the association is doing a comprehensive analysis of the role in the future & changes in the marketplace with the Alignment Initiative being conducted by Fleishman Hillard also SLA is going green in 2008. http://www.sla.org/PDFs/2008LS_FHAlignmentPresentation.pdf and http://www.sla.org/PDFs/2008LS_StrategicAlignmentProjectUpdate.pdf
2009 Centennial Anniversary of SLA – what can we as a chapter do?
An excellent interactive session on Thursday was the “Remembering the Future” session particularly the “Environmental Timeline” exercise. We applied it to our current work environment and used it as a strategic planning tool and then we applied the same tool to the future of SLA.
2009 The Leadership Summit promoted the benefits of membership. Do you know your SLA member ID and password? If not send a request through the SLA Website.
Here are a few benefits of membership listed for your convenience.
Our major networking tool - the membership directory
CLICK University has tons of free and fee based programs.
Each month there is a free CLICK U course of the month you will also find some free podcasts and webcasts.
There are 990 eBrary e-books on management and leadership topics available for free!
SLA provides us with Factiva newsfeeds on topics of interest to librarians.
SLA’s NewsGator feeds of over one hundred information topics are a member benefit.
Find more value ideas here: http://www.sla.org/content/membership/mbrbenefits/index.cfm
Wanda McDavid
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